Gu Yuanqing looked slightly surprised. This city suspended in the sky possessed such power that it forcibly raised the combat strength of a Chaos Heaven Immortal Level expert to nearly that of a True God.
He had to admit that the Great Wei Divine Dynasty had remarkably deep reserves.
Still, this alone was not enough to make Gu Yuanqing wary.
What truly put him on his guard was this: what exactly did Wei Wuji intend by this move?
Since the Great Wei Divine Dynasty had ties to the Primordial Divine Sect, it should have known his strength in considerable detail.
Moreover, Wei Wuji had personally intervened in the previous battle. He should have known that power barely reaching the true god level could do nothing to Gu Yuanqing.
Surely he had not sent these people here to die?
Or had he hidden some other means in the shadows?
Even if the enemies before him amounted to little, Gu Yuanqing still approached them as a lion would a rabbit, holding nothing back.
His aura climbed sharply. In what seemed an instant, he crossed the boundary of a Demigod and stood firmly at the true god level.
Facing Lü Zhang's saber strike, which carried the Hanging City's power and poured down like a celestial river overturned, Gu Yuanqing neither dodged nor retreated. He held two fingers together like a sword and swept them forward.
Myriad Phenomena Sword of Tribulation!
The saber light collided with the sword light. There was no roar, no explosion. That strike, powerful enough to cleave a mountain, vanished like a clay ox sinking into the sea, dissolved layer by layer by the sword light. The sword qi continued onward without losing momentum, descending toward the Hanging City.
Hundreds of millions of runes flashed, forming a protective barrier. Ripples